An adolescent ward.

Managing distress on an inpatient adolescent ward

The Children’s Hospital at Westmead Eating Disorder Service provides secondary and tertiary level care to inpatients and outpatients. The inpatient program focuses on medical stabilisation, re-establishing eating, and containing eating disorder behaviours as well as assessing and managing comorbid problems such as anxiety, depression or risk behaviours. Being in hospital and being faced with a ...

Liaison conference for adolescent psychosomatic disease in pediatric ward

We held the liaison case conferences for two adolescent cases with psychosomatic disease in the pediatric ward to understand the patient’s emotional problems and family situations, and to discuss how approach their psychological problems. We considered that the liaison conference played a useful role in both the clinical diagnosis and treatment. Furthermore, the liaison conference was useful fo...

Characteristics of adolescent suicide attempters admitted to an acute psychiatric ward in Taiwan.

BACKGROUND To investigate the characteristics of adolescent suicide attempters in Taiwan, compare with Western reports and provide reference for suicide preventive interventions in adolescence. METHODS During a 3-year period, the charts of 109 adolescent psychiatric inpatients were retrospectively reviewed. Twenty-eight adolescents admitted to an acute psychiatric ward as a result of recent s...

[Involuntary admissions to an acute psychiatric ward].

BACKGROUND Involuntary admission to acute psychiatric wards in Norway has not been studied empirically after the introduction of a new Mental Health Act (MHA) 1 January 2001. According to the MHA, observation with coercion can be used to clarify illness. The objectives of this study were to describe scale and circumstances associated with involuntary admissions. METHOD All patients discharged...

An objective evaluation of geriatric ward meetings.